{"id":750491,"date":"2026-06-21T00:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:14:32","slug":"why-a-new-sculpture-has-appeared-in-liverpool-and-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750491\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a new sculpture has appeared in Liverpool and what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The annual UK-wide competition, now in its third year, is managed by Liverpool Business Improvement District (BID) and Liverpool Parish Church with the winner awarded \u00a32,500 along with the public display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rogers said he was &#8220;delighted&#8221; to be named this year&#8217;s Liverpool Sculpture Prize winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rogers was selected by a panel which included Rector of Liverpool Fr Philip Anderson, Curator at DuoVision James Lawler, art critic and writer from the Double Negative Laura Robertson, James Minshull from Taylor Wessing, Ben Stephenson, current winner of Liverpool Sculpture Prize and Joanna Rowlands from Liverpool Experience Campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Bentley from Liverpool BID called it &#8220;really eye-catching&#8221; and said she was &#8220;looking forward to seeing people&#8217;s reactions to it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artwork will be on display on the plinth at St Nicholas Church, Chapel Street for the next 12 months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual UK-wide competition, now in its third year, is managed by Liverpool Business Improvement District (BID) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-750491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}